Overwatch League: London Spitfire wins the first final

Overwatch League: London Spitfire wins the first final

The London Spitfire team won the first phase final of the official Overwatch League after an extremely exciting game. They were already 2-0 down to New York Excelsior’s rivals before a furious race to catch up. In the end, London won 3-2 and at the same time pocketed $ 100,000 in prize money.

Last Sunday in the Blizzard Arena of Los Angeles the first major phase finale took the official Overwatch (now for 63.59 € Buy) League instead. First, the second (Houston Outlaws) and third-placed (London Spitfire) played the first phase against each other to secure a place in the final itself. The team from London won the match relatively effortlessly and met New York Excelsior shortly afterwards who lost just once in their last ten games.

At the beginning everything looked like it would not change in the phase final, because New York went fast with 2-0 lead. But then began a rather furious catch-up of London Spitfire, who eventually managed to prevail 3: 2. They are not only the winners of the first phase in the Overwatch League , but could also secure a prize money of $ 100,000 at the same time. The team from New York Excelsior got at least a bonus of $ 25,000.

Now follows a small break in the official Overwatch League, the second phase begins at this country on February 22, 2018 at 1:00 clock German time with the match between Seoul Dynasty and Los Angeles Valiant. The total placements of the season are taken over for the seedling of the playoffs. There may be some new teams added in the league’s second season .